Want to giggle like a kid again? Go outside at night and kick a soccer ball around in the dark. I did, with my bare feet. Being barefoot restricted how hard I could kick the ball. That can be important in the dark, particularly if you have someone to kick the ball back to you. For the kicker, it constrains the force exerted on the soccer ball. For the receiver it constrains the chance a soccer ball will come shooting out of the dark and take their head off. After a few easy kicks, the temptation to lay into the ball is hard to resist. The increasing pain of a solid barefoot kick teaches real quickly which parts of the foot are good for this type of activity. Word to the wise; using the bony part of the ankle is good for power shots, inside of the big toe less so.
I was relating this story to a co-worker after we had just gotten done discussing some of the nuances of configuring a wireless router. It turned out that the previous evening, at about the same time I was testing the bruise potential of my feet, he was figuring out that when installing a wireless router in his home the cable modem and new wireless router may need to be powered off and on in sequence, with the cable modem restarting completely before powering on the router.
We had discussed that since the cable company's head-end equipment provides an address to the cable modem, and the cable modem provides an IP address to the router, and the router provides an address to the computers in the house, this little ankle-bone connected to the knee-bone chain should be activated in sequence to ensure everything flows automatically.
We agreed that both the appropriate use of the boney part of the ankle for kicking a soccer ball with your bare foot and the nuances of router configurations are pretty useless pieces of information. We also had a good chuckle when we determined that if your brain were to attempt to store these useless bits in the same part of your mind you may end up with the desire to kick your router with the boney part of your ankle the next time you need to reconfigure your router.
